Edit to Add: While voting seems to focus onthe current main characters (I think Murray is the only current main character not included), this is impressive. So many segments I've wanted on DVD for awhile.... Admiral Bird, Spider-Monster, Oscar's Bein' Green, Cookies in Bed...

I wonder if this will be a two-disc set like "The Best of Sesame Street Spoofs!" (which when it was initially announced was titled "Best of Sesame Spoofs"). It'd be great if they'd allow write-in votes or if the site would update with more clips. Interestingly, it appears to be promoting voting for favorite characters more than clips. But it looks like you can vote for multiple clips and can vote for the same clips many times (just not multiple times a day). Today I voted for Alone in the Swamp, Admiral Bird, Spider-Monster, and Oscar's Bein' Green. I wonder if the winning clips will be part of the main program or if they'll be bonus clips, like how the winning clip from the amazon.com contest was included in 40 Years of Sunny Days as a bonus feature.

One thing that bothers me a bit is that so many clips from past releases are included to vote for, especially classics and especially recurring segments (though maybe they'll include multiple editions of recurring segments, especially if these are to be bonus clips). Still, it appears that Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Stairs will be the version with the original intro/outro (if it wins), and hopefully if Super-Grover: Telephone wins it'll include the pre-title sequence cut from Old School Vol. 1 (it looks like sesamestreet.org doesn't even include the full pre-title sequence).

I wonder if this will be a two-disc set like "The Best of Sesame Street Spoofs!" (which when it was initially announced was titled "Best of Sesame Spoofs"). It'd be great if they'd allow write-in votes or if the site would update with more clips. Interestingly, it appears to be promoting voting for favorite characters more than clips. But it looks like you can vote for multiple clips and can vote for the same clips many times (just not multiple times a day). Today I voted for Alone in the Swamp, Admiral Bird, Spider-Monster, and Oscar's Bein' Green. I wonder if the winning clips will be part of the main program or if they'll be bonus clips, like how the winning clip from the amazon.com contest was included in 40 Years of Sunny Days as a bonus feature.
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Seeing as though there's 12 characters and you approx. 2 minutes per one sketch for each of them, that's barley half-an-hour. I would saw that either: A. they'll have two or so segments for each characters on one full disc, or two discs, six characters on each.

Seeing as though there's 12 characters and you approx. 2 minutes per one sketch for each of them, that's barley half-an-hour. I would saw that either: A. they'll have two or so segments for each characters on one full disc, or two discs, six characters on each.

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I'm hoping there'll be more characters included (Kermit, Roosevelt Franklin, Biff and Sully, Murray, Herry), or some clips already decided on that aren't votable (if that's a word). You never know.

It says "view and vote", but it doesn't actually provide clips or links to the clips, just images and descriptions. Most of the stuff nominated can be viewed at sesamestreet.org, and everything else can be viewed on YouTube (for now...). Considering this, I'm glad they didn't nominate anything really rare. It'd be annoying if they nominated something none of us have access to (especially not in english) and then it didn't get enough votes to be included.

Noticed that it lumps four clips for each character, even though many characters are in multiple clips. I find it odd that "The 39 Stairs" is listed under Cookie Monster instead of Grover. Yeah, Cookie's in it, but Grover's really the star.

The nominated stuff I'm really interested in are the Big Bird, Snuffy, and Oscar clips, even though most of the nominated Big Bird ones have been released on DVD.

I still refuse to get a facebook page on the grounds that you need one to vote.

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You know, that's the reason I got a facebook back in 2008, because Sesame Workshop allowed fans to nominate clips for "40 Years of Sunny Days". I think I nominated the second-largest number of clips. And only nine were included on that DVD.

One thing interesting is that after voting for a clip, you get an option to share something to your wall (though you can cancel) saying that the clip you voted for is your favorite clip. With so many clips, I don't really want to be seen saying that one particular clip is my favorite, and while it has stuff that should have been on video ages ago, I don't think very many of my biggest favorites are nominated here (I should look at the "top 41 Sesame Street Moments" article I wrote for The Muppet Mindset and see if any of those clips are nominated here).

It says "view and vote", but it doesn't actually provide clips or links to the clips, just images and descriptions. Most of the stuff nominated can be viewed at sesamestreet.org, and everything else can be viewed on YouTube (for now...). Considering this, I'm glad they didn't nominate anything really rare. It'd be annoying if they nominated something none of us have access to (especially not in english) and then it didn't get enough votes to be included.

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There's nothing like having a physical copy... but I hope that somehow they manage to give us something deep from the archives that NO ONE has ever posted online, youtube or Sesame Street web player.

Considering the "friends" aspect, I think it'd be great if this were to include some "ensemble cast" segments. Like "The King's Nose", "The American Revolution: National Bird", "You Tickle Me", "Fuzzy and Blue", "Do De Rubber Duck", any of Prairie Dawn's pageants... Things with many of the main Muppet characters.

I wonder if I should put myself in a freeze chamber now or wait until voting is over and freeze myself until fall....

Currently voting ends on feburary 1. I've been hoping that every month for at least a few months they'd replace the nominated clips and let fans vote again and again. Probably won't but I'd still like it to happen.

I've been thinking about this, and here is what I think might be a good line-up for the release. Assuming that it'll have stuff not nominated, that at least one of the nominated clips for each character will be included, that some additional character clips will be included (I won't go too crazy on the old school characters) and that all winning clips will be part of the main program (as opposed to being bonus features like the winning clip on the 40th anniversary DVD), here is my wishlist.

Another idea I thought would be cool, though I doubt it'd happen with this release, would be to focus on the evolution of all the main characters. I'd include a few segments in a row of each character, with a behind-the-scenes introduction for each character, then show character clips, mainly one for every few years. For example, for Grover, show a season one clip, then something from seasons 2 or 3, then something from the late 1970s, then one or two clips from the 1980s, then a 1990s clip or two, and then a few clips from the last decade. Or with Elmo, begin with a Baby Monster clip, then one of Elmo's season 11 clips (I'd be okay if it's something where he's hardly there, since I'd be surprised if he had any starring roles in season 11), then a "Brian Meehl as Elmo" clip, then a "Richard Hunt as Elmo" clip, then one of Kevin Clash's earliest Elmo clips, then a few 1990s clips, and then somethign from the 2000s.

I wonder if any celebrity clips will be included. No such clips were nominated, and with the focus on main characters it'd be best to avoid celebrities as much as possible (unless that celebrity is Kermit the Frog). And if the set is to include Kermit, I wonder if they'd only include material where Kermit appears alongside other main characters of if they would treat him like a regular and show something with just Kermit (or just Kermit and some minor/one-shot characters).